I Want It All, And I Want It Now!
Great Song by Queen! One of my favorite bands, by the way.
I certainly understand the sentiment behind the song, and it is perfectly fine to want it all and want it now, but, my dearest, sometimes Patience truly is a Virtue.
I have had many, many clients over the years, with situations at varying degrees of difficulty, and we have worked through them successfully together. There were times when a learning curve may have slowed or delayed progress, but we got through the toughest times with a high degree of success.
The learning curve seems to always come with my clients when it comes to communication. Many do not and will not simply wait out a situation to allow it to change. As discussed in my multiple blogs on Masculine and Feminine Energy, it seems that a large percentage of female clients cannot self-discipline themselves to the feminine (passive) energy when it comes to communication.
Despite our work together, they decide not to follow the advice of the cards, and the natural balance between Masculine and Feminine Energy, and they initiate contact with the object of their desires first (masculine energy). All is not lost, however, any progress that was made during their self-imposed silence has now been erased and has lost any and all effectiveness in allowing the male to feel their absence and grow uncomfortable. Now the male does not have a motivating factor (discomfort) to produce any change in his behavior.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Relationships From All Angles
The Geometry of Relationships
Being an Aquarian, and prone to be analytical and logical about all things, inclusive of relationships, I have begun thinking of relationships in relation to Mathematics and in particular, Geometry.
Geometry is a very intricate subject, used by many of the sciences as the ground work for such things as physics, engineering and more. Let’s apply Geometry to the World of Relationships.
First and foremost, the most obvious Geometric Shape that all our aware of is the Triangle, or, more specifically, “The Love Triangle”.
A “Love Triangle” is generally defined by the presence of three entities who are involved emotionally, usually with two of the entities forming the base of the triangle, and one of the entities, (the one involved with both entities at the base), forming the vertex. Frequently it is an equilateral triangle, where the person in the position of the vertex is trying to juggle both “angles” to the persons at the base in a seemingly balanced way.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
Being an Aquarian, and prone to be analytical and logical about all things, inclusive of relationships, I have begun thinking of relationships in relation to Mathematics and in particular, Geometry.
Geometry is a very intricate subject, used by many of the sciences as the ground work for such things as physics, engineering and more. Let’s apply Geometry to the World of Relationships.
First and foremost, the most obvious Geometric Shape that all our aware of is the Triangle, or, more specifically, “The Love Triangle”.
A “Love Triangle” is generally defined by the presence of three entities who are involved emotionally, usually with two of the entities forming the base of the triangle, and one of the entities, (the one involved with both entities at the base), forming the vertex. Frequently it is an equilateral triangle, where the person in the position of the vertex is trying to juggle both “angles” to the persons at the base in a seemingly balanced way.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
Friday, May 4, 2007
COOL AID
Cool Aid - Not The Drink! What You Can Get When You Call Brigid Bishop
Kool Aid, whenever I think of that frosted pitcher with the smiley face on it it brings back so many childhood memories of summer and bike rides, and crickets chirping and setting up a little Kool Aid stand in front of my house in the hot sun...........aaaahhhhh!
What is Cool Aid from Brigid Bishop?
Well, it's getting to speak with someone, privately, about your deepest concerns, how you feel, what you think, what you are hoping for, what you are fearing, and getting a professional and nonjudgmental tarot reading that can lead to some pretty "cool aid" in achieving your goals.
I am primarily a Tarot Card Reader, but my practice is not limited to Tarot.
I work with a combination of intuition, experience, Tarot, Astrology, and general metaphysical and psychological knowledge to get to the heart of your situation.
As an advisor here on Keen.com I get my fair share of the quickie calls where someone is ONLY interested in a "predictive" reading. I am happy to provide that service for you, but I find that the clients who get the MOST from their experience with me are the clients who delve a little deeper.
Being called a "psychic" is not something that I am comfortable with. Everyone has intuition, an ability to sense things that are not readily apparent to us, hence everyone has psychic abilities, it is just a question of how much they are developed in any one given individual.
What people fail to understand is that the true meaning of the term "psychic" is not synonymous with fortune telling, it has more to do with tapping into the "psyche", hence, understanding people psychologically in order to project likely events and reactions based on that ability.
Being a professional reader is more about tapping into your psyche and the psyche of any individual you may be inquiring about than anything else.
That is the beauty of Jungian Tarot. Jungian Tarot is all about the psyche and the soul, and that is the method of Tarot Interpretation that is most predominant in my style.
In Jungian Tarot we believe that the placement of the tarot cards during a reading through the process of shuffling and laying out a spread is actually tapping into the "collective unconscious", (the energy of every consciousness that ever was, is or will be), to get our answers.....and that is the magickal power of the Tarot for me.
So, if you are having relationship issues, just starting a new relationship, breaking up, reconciling, seeking a new career path or looking for guidance on a given situation, consider calling me, Brigid Bishop, for some "Cool Aid".
Peace!
Read up on Myths and Truths about Tarot here: http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Myths-and-Truths-About-Tarot/115521.aspx
Kool Aid, whenever I think of that frosted pitcher with the smiley face on it it brings back so many childhood memories of summer and bike rides, and crickets chirping and setting up a little Kool Aid stand in front of my house in the hot sun...........aaaahhhhh!
What is Cool Aid from Brigid Bishop?
Well, it's getting to speak with someone, privately, about your deepest concerns, how you feel, what you think, what you are hoping for, what you are fearing, and getting a professional and nonjudgmental tarot reading that can lead to some pretty "cool aid" in achieving your goals.
I am primarily a Tarot Card Reader, but my practice is not limited to Tarot.
I work with a combination of intuition, experience, Tarot, Astrology, and general metaphysical and psychological knowledge to get to the heart of your situation.
As an advisor here on Keen.com I get my fair share of the quickie calls where someone is ONLY interested in a "predictive" reading. I am happy to provide that service for you, but I find that the clients who get the MOST from their experience with me are the clients who delve a little deeper.
Being called a "psychic" is not something that I am comfortable with. Everyone has intuition, an ability to sense things that are not readily apparent to us, hence everyone has psychic abilities, it is just a question of how much they are developed in any one given individual.
What people fail to understand is that the true meaning of the term "psychic" is not synonymous with fortune telling, it has more to do with tapping into the "psyche", hence, understanding people psychologically in order to project likely events and reactions based on that ability.
Being a professional reader is more about tapping into your psyche and the psyche of any individual you may be inquiring about than anything else.
That is the beauty of Jungian Tarot. Jungian Tarot is all about the psyche and the soul, and that is the method of Tarot Interpretation that is most predominant in my style.
In Jungian Tarot we believe that the placement of the tarot cards during a reading through the process of shuffling and laying out a spread is actually tapping into the "collective unconscious", (the energy of every consciousness that ever was, is or will be), to get our answers.....and that is the magickal power of the Tarot for me.
So, if you are having relationship issues, just starting a new relationship, breaking up, reconciling, seeking a new career path or looking for guidance on a given situation, consider calling me, Brigid Bishop, for some "Cool Aid".
Peace!
Read up on Myths and Truths about Tarot here: http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Myths-and-Truths-About-Tarot/115521.aspx
Soulmates
Soul Mates
It's not just about love and romance, soul mates are about a lot more than that.
Soul Mate Love Relationships, as previously discussed in my other blogs about the subject, http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Soul-Mates-by-Brigid-Bishop/116216.aspx and http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Gone-With-the-Wind--a-Classic-Soul-Mate-Story/127254.aspx , for example, are never easy.
So, if you meet someone and fall in love and enter into a long-term relationship, perhaps even marry, without any major difficulties, does this mean that they are not your Soul Mate? No.
If you meet someone, fall in love, and have MAJOR difficulties, does this mean that they are your Soul Mate? No.
It's a case by case basis.
We do NOT have only ONE Soul Mate. Different Soul Mates teach us (and we teach them) different lessons. Our parents and children or perhaps grandparents usually are Soul Mate relationships.
Maybe our relationship with our significant other is smooth as molasses, that does not mean that they are not our Soul Mate, it means that we have learned the lessons we were to teach each other and are rewarded (Nirvana) by being allowed to be together in happiness.
Maybe our lesson is not the lesson of romantic love, maybe it is how to parent together, or perhaps we produce a terminally ill child together, and although our relationship is solid, we must learn together how to deal with this type of grief.
Frequently, when we have children, they are a Soul Mate from a past life and there is a significant lesson to learn from each other. I know that both of my sons are Soul Mates from past existences, but I also know that their father was not a Soul Mate of mine, it just worked out karmically that we had to cross paths to bring these two particular souls (my sons) to this earth.
When I compared the astrology charts of my children to mine and to my ex-husbands I found a very significant number of Soul Mate aspects between their charts and mine, but not between my chart and my ex-husbands, nor between the boys and their father. I couldn't understand it at first. I compared the two boys, and again, major Soul Mate aspects between the brothers, so the lessons to be learned in our little family were between the three souls connected astrologically and oddly did not include their father.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
It's not just about love and romance, soul mates are about a lot more than that.
Soul Mate Love Relationships, as previously discussed in my other blogs about the subject, http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Soul-Mates-by-Brigid-Bishop/116216.aspx and http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Gone-With-the-Wind--a-Classic-Soul-Mate-Story/127254.aspx , for example, are never easy.
So, if you meet someone and fall in love and enter into a long-term relationship, perhaps even marry, without any major difficulties, does this mean that they are not your Soul Mate? No.
If you meet someone, fall in love, and have MAJOR difficulties, does this mean that they are your Soul Mate? No.
It's a case by case basis.
We do NOT have only ONE Soul Mate. Different Soul Mates teach us (and we teach them) different lessons. Our parents and children or perhaps grandparents usually are Soul Mate relationships.
Maybe our relationship with our significant other is smooth as molasses, that does not mean that they are not our Soul Mate, it means that we have learned the lessons we were to teach each other and are rewarded (Nirvana) by being allowed to be together in happiness.
Maybe our lesson is not the lesson of romantic love, maybe it is how to parent together, or perhaps we produce a terminally ill child together, and although our relationship is solid, we must learn together how to deal with this type of grief.
Frequently, when we have children, they are a Soul Mate from a past life and there is a significant lesson to learn from each other. I know that both of my sons are Soul Mates from past existences, but I also know that their father was not a Soul Mate of mine, it just worked out karmically that we had to cross paths to bring these two particular souls (my sons) to this earth.
When I compared the astrology charts of my children to mine and to my ex-husbands I found a very significant number of Soul Mate aspects between their charts and mine, but not between my chart and my ex-husbands, nor between the boys and their father. I couldn't understand it at first. I compared the two boys, and again, major Soul Mate aspects between the brothers, so the lessons to be learned in our little family were between the three souls connected astrologically and oddly did not include their father.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
Never Enter Into a Battle of Wits......
Never Enter Into a Battle of Wits with a Person Who is Unarmed!
I really like that quote.
I don't know who the author is, but when I am feeling level and balanced I call it to mind and move on.
You know what I am talking about.
It happens everyday, *or every "bad" day.
You're driving down the highway, minding the speed limit, and some road rageous idiot gets on your tail trying to push you faster and faster through 45 mile an hour turns and there is nowhere to pull over.
Or you go into some public Internet forum and post an innocuous statement and some troller attacks you for no good reason.
Or you're in a meeting with some insecure suck up who wants to make you look like you are slipping in front of your vice president of finance and he throws you a curve ball.
Just remember, people who behave like this are "unarmed" not only with wits, but with power of any kind.
The MOST powerless people in the world are the ones who look to cause problems for others.
The man with road rage behind you is angry because he is low man on the totem pole at work and he can't get ahead, his boss is a bully, so when he gets behind the wheel of his car (the only place he feels he has control), he becomes the bully.
The internet troll that tries to hijack your thread is a lonesome soul that has no friends to talk to in real life, no social life, and is jealous of your intellect.
The sideswiper in your production meeting knows he's in over his head and can't keep up with his own responsibilities so he tries to deflect negative attention away from himself by attempting to set you up.
Don't succumb to these people, this negative stimuli, just keep moving forward, respond, do not react.
RESPOND do not REACT.
Or better yet, ignore, if possible.
Put your turn signal on and let the road warrior pass you, smile and wave as he screams out his window flipping you off.
Ignore the post meant to flame you and continue with your original discussion.
When blind-sided in a meeting redirect the conversation, calmly, to the original discussion.
NEVER enter into a battle of Wits with a Person Who is Unarmed.
Respond, don't React.........or better yet, if possible, ignore!
Read Why Hate is Not the Opposite of Love Here: http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Hate-is-NOT-the-Opposite-of-Love-by-Brigid-Bishop/119993.aspx
I really like that quote.
I don't know who the author is, but when I am feeling level and balanced I call it to mind and move on.
You know what I am talking about.
It happens everyday, *or every "bad" day.
You're driving down the highway, minding the speed limit, and some road rageous idiot gets on your tail trying to push you faster and faster through 45 mile an hour turns and there is nowhere to pull over.
Or you go into some public Internet forum and post an innocuous statement and some troller attacks you for no good reason.
Or you're in a meeting with some insecure suck up who wants to make you look like you are slipping in front of your vice president of finance and he throws you a curve ball.
Just remember, people who behave like this are "unarmed" not only with wits, but with power of any kind.
The MOST powerless people in the world are the ones who look to cause problems for others.
The man with road rage behind you is angry because he is low man on the totem pole at work and he can't get ahead, his boss is a bully, so when he gets behind the wheel of his car (the only place he feels he has control), he becomes the bully.
The internet troll that tries to hijack your thread is a lonesome soul that has no friends to talk to in real life, no social life, and is jealous of your intellect.
The sideswiper in your production meeting knows he's in over his head and can't keep up with his own responsibilities so he tries to deflect negative attention away from himself by attempting to set you up.
Don't succumb to these people, this negative stimuli, just keep moving forward, respond, do not react.
RESPOND do not REACT.
Or better yet, ignore, if possible.
Put your turn signal on and let the road warrior pass you, smile and wave as he screams out his window flipping you off.
Ignore the post meant to flame you and continue with your original discussion.
When blind-sided in a meeting redirect the conversation, calmly, to the original discussion.
NEVER enter into a battle of Wits with a Person Who is Unarmed.
Respond, don't React.........or better yet, if possible, ignore!
Read Why Hate is Not the Opposite of Love Here: http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Hate-is-NOT-the-Opposite-of-Love-by-Brigid-Bishop/119993.aspx
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
The Dating Game: Are You a Masculine or Feminine Energy Female? Explore Your Natural Tendencies.
The Dating Game: Are You a Masculine or Feminine Energy Female? Explore Your Natural Tendencies.
Ok, this one is for the girls, women, divas, ladies out there.........especially those who are experiencing "Relationship Issues" and looking for some insight into what is causing these issues to arise. This should prove useful to the men among our readership as well, as the male can be either a masculine or feminine Primary Energy as well, so I guess this is for just about anyone examining their relationship!
In all relationships there needs to be balance. In all relationships there are multiple energies flowing. One of the core energies in any romantic relationship is the anima/animus, the yin and yang, the masculine and feminine energies.
How do you know which energy is your Primary Energy?
First, let us examine what you want and expect from a relationship.
Do you want to feel a sense of your partner being on your side, a sense of inclusiveness, a sense of protection, a sense of your feelings being recognized and validated? Do you want to express yourself in terms of how you feel? Is it important to you that your feelings are being considered? Do you tend to look at things in terms of what you "Don't Want" instead of what you "Want".
This is a very simplistic boil down to a feminine energy being.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
Ok, this one is for the girls, women, divas, ladies out there.........especially those who are experiencing "Relationship Issues" and looking for some insight into what is causing these issues to arise. This should prove useful to the men among our readership as well, as the male can be either a masculine or feminine Primary Energy as well, so I guess this is for just about anyone examining their relationship!
In all relationships there needs to be balance. In all relationships there are multiple energies flowing. One of the core energies in any romantic relationship is the anima/animus, the yin and yang, the masculine and feminine energies.
How do you know which energy is your Primary Energy?
First, let us examine what you want and expect from a relationship.
Do you want to feel a sense of your partner being on your side, a sense of inclusiveness, a sense of protection, a sense of your feelings being recognized and validated? Do you want to express yourself in terms of how you feel? Is it important to you that your feelings are being considered? Do you tend to look at things in terms of what you "Don't Want" instead of what you "Want".
This is a very simplistic boil down to a feminine energy being.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
Astrology 101 by Brigid Bishop
Astrology 101 by Brigid Bishop
Many people are familiar with astrology and are aware of their Sun Sign and the personality traits that are attributed to that sign. Many also read their daily horoscopes, which are based solely on the astrololgical positions of the day in comparison to their sun sign........this is what I call "Bubble Gum" Astrology.
To really begin to understand Astrology, which is a SCIENCE, totally based on MATHEMATICS, you need to have what is called a NATAL CHART produced. There are many, many free sites on the web that you can run your Natal Chart on to begin your lessons in Astrology. If you call me I can give you a very intensive free site to begin your journey into personality analysis with Astrology.........
What is a Natal Chart? A Natal Astrology Chart is produced by mathematically calculating your sidereal time at birth using your birth date, longitude and latitude of the location of your birth, and your time of birth. The formula used produces your sidereal time at birth in order for you to produce an exact snapshot of the planetary positions at the moment of your entrance into our wonderful world.
The Natal Chart is a picture of the horizon at the moment of your birth. The first significant mathematical product of the calculation of your chart is your "Rising Sign" or "Ascendant". Before I get into what this means, allow me to describe exactly how a chart is presented and read.
A Natal Chart (there are thousands of different types of charts), for our purposes we will assume that when I use the words Astrology Chart in this blog we are referring to the Natal Chart, is presented as a circle cut into 12 pieces, or "Houses". Each house controls a certain aspect of your personality, some of your houses will be empty, and some will contain planets.
In Astrological Terms, there are nine major planets we consider the placement of (there are also nodes and asteroids, but the average Astrology Novice isn't ready for that yet), so we will stick to the nine initial planets placed, which are The Sun, The Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. Each of these nine "planets" (the Moon is considered a planet in Astrological Interpretation) also controls certain aspects of your personality.
Each planet is residing in a certain "sign" at the time of your birth. There are twelve signs and there are twelve Houses in your chart. Each house has a natural ruler and also has a ruler based on your Astrology Chart.
Ok, so back to the Rising Sign or Ascendant. This is the sign that was on the Horizon at the moment of your birth. The Ascendant will rule the first house in your Astrology Chart. So, you can be a Sun Sign Aquarius and have any of the twelve signs (including Aquarius), as your Rising Sign. For purposes of example we will use Gemini here as the Ascendant. Your birth time is what is used to set your rising sign. Each subsequent House will be ruled by the signs in order of Astrological Chronology, so Rising Sign of Gemini equals First House ruled by Gemini, Second House ruled by Cancer, Third House ruled by Leo, Fourth House ruled by Virgo, Fifth House ruled by Libra, Sixth House ruled by Scorpio, Seventh House (Descendant) ruled by Sagittarius, Eighth House ruled by Capricorn, Ninth House ruled by Aquarius, Tenth House ruled by Pisces, Eleventh House ruled by Aries and Twelfth House ruled by Taurus. This sets the "Wheel" of your individual Astrology Chart.
Now, all nine planets are residing in certain Astrology Signs at the moment of your birth. For instance, you could have The Moon in Pisces, that would place it in your Tenth House, and you have the Sun in Aquarius, so you have a Ninth House Sun, you may have Venus in Aquarius (Ninth House), Mars in Aquarius, Pluto in Virgo (Fourth House) and so on.
The ruler of each of your Houses is analyzed and the position of each of your planets is analyzed along with, now it gets deeper, the ASTROLOGICAL ASPECTS (the degrees you measure between planets), between each and every one of your planetary positions.
This is the SCIENCE of ASTROLOGY.
If your head isn't spinning by now I will take Lesson One a little further and share with you that your Sun Sign rules your inner personality, it is the core of your being, and it is what you are at a soul level, however your Rising Sign is the sign that controls your OUTWARD PERSONALITY. It is the first impression that you make on people, it is who people "think" you are, but not the "inner you".
For example, have you ever known a person, known their sign, and thought "Geez, that woman is nothing like an Aquarius, they're supposed to be intelligent and altruistic and withdrawn, unemotional and cold, and she is the warmest, most outgoing person I know." What you are seeing is that your Aquarian friend is extremely likely to have a Gemini Rising sign, someone who is extroverted and seeks to make friends, make you feel comfortable, very unlike the aloof Aquarius descriptives you read. What is very important to understand is the person's entire chart, where is the Venus (how you love), where is the Mars (how you anger), where is the Moon (how you emote), etc. etc.
I will write more on this later, but I want you to try to grasp the concept of the chart, the Sun Sign and the Rising Sign before we get into further detail.
Your First House rules your Outward Personality. The sign residing on the First House is how the world views you. Any planetary placements in your first house will also intensify that outward personality.......
More on this subject will be blogged on a regular basis.
Brigid Bishop
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Many people are familiar with astrology and are aware of their Sun Sign and the personality traits that are attributed to that sign. Many also read their daily horoscopes, which are based solely on the astrololgical positions of the day in comparison to their sun sign........this is what I call "Bubble Gum" Astrology.
To really begin to understand Astrology, which is a SCIENCE, totally based on MATHEMATICS, you need to have what is called a NATAL CHART produced. There are many, many free sites on the web that you can run your Natal Chart on to begin your lessons in Astrology. If you call me I can give you a very intensive free site to begin your journey into personality analysis with Astrology.........
What is a Natal Chart? A Natal Astrology Chart is produced by mathematically calculating your sidereal time at birth using your birth date, longitude and latitude of the location of your birth, and your time of birth. The formula used produces your sidereal time at birth in order for you to produce an exact snapshot of the planetary positions at the moment of your entrance into our wonderful world.
The Natal Chart is a picture of the horizon at the moment of your birth. The first significant mathematical product of the calculation of your chart is your "Rising Sign" or "Ascendant". Before I get into what this means, allow me to describe exactly how a chart is presented and read.
A Natal Chart (there are thousands of different types of charts), for our purposes we will assume that when I use the words Astrology Chart in this blog we are referring to the Natal Chart, is presented as a circle cut into 12 pieces, or "Houses". Each house controls a certain aspect of your personality, some of your houses will be empty, and some will contain planets.
In Astrological Terms, there are nine major planets we consider the placement of (there are also nodes and asteroids, but the average Astrology Novice isn't ready for that yet), so we will stick to the nine initial planets placed, which are The Sun, The Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto. Each of these nine "planets" (the Moon is considered a planet in Astrological Interpretation) also controls certain aspects of your personality.
Each planet is residing in a certain "sign" at the time of your birth. There are twelve signs and there are twelve Houses in your chart. Each house has a natural ruler and also has a ruler based on your Astrology Chart.
Ok, so back to the Rising Sign or Ascendant. This is the sign that was on the Horizon at the moment of your birth. The Ascendant will rule the first house in your Astrology Chart. So, you can be a Sun Sign Aquarius and have any of the twelve signs (including Aquarius), as your Rising Sign. For purposes of example we will use Gemini here as the Ascendant. Your birth time is what is used to set your rising sign. Each subsequent House will be ruled by the signs in order of Astrological Chronology, so Rising Sign of Gemini equals First House ruled by Gemini, Second House ruled by Cancer, Third House ruled by Leo, Fourth House ruled by Virgo, Fifth House ruled by Libra, Sixth House ruled by Scorpio, Seventh House (Descendant) ruled by Sagittarius, Eighth House ruled by Capricorn, Ninth House ruled by Aquarius, Tenth House ruled by Pisces, Eleventh House ruled by Aries and Twelfth House ruled by Taurus. This sets the "Wheel" of your individual Astrology Chart.
Now, all nine planets are residing in certain Astrology Signs at the moment of your birth. For instance, you could have The Moon in Pisces, that would place it in your Tenth House, and you have the Sun in Aquarius, so you have a Ninth House Sun, you may have Venus in Aquarius (Ninth House), Mars in Aquarius, Pluto in Virgo (Fourth House) and so on.
The ruler of each of your Houses is analyzed and the position of each of your planets is analyzed along with, now it gets deeper, the ASTROLOGICAL ASPECTS (the degrees you measure between planets), between each and every one of your planetary positions.
This is the SCIENCE of ASTROLOGY.
If your head isn't spinning by now I will take Lesson One a little further and share with you that your Sun Sign rules your inner personality, it is the core of your being, and it is what you are at a soul level, however your Rising Sign is the sign that controls your OUTWARD PERSONALITY. It is the first impression that you make on people, it is who people "think" you are, but not the "inner you".
For example, have you ever known a person, known their sign, and thought "Geez, that woman is nothing like an Aquarius, they're supposed to be intelligent and altruistic and withdrawn, unemotional and cold, and she is the warmest, most outgoing person I know." What you are seeing is that your Aquarian friend is extremely likely to have a Gemini Rising sign, someone who is extroverted and seeks to make friends, make you feel comfortable, very unlike the aloof Aquarius descriptives you read. What is very important to understand is the person's entire chart, where is the Venus (how you love), where is the Mars (how you anger), where is the Moon (how you emote), etc. etc.
I will write more on this later, but I want you to try to grasp the concept of the chart, the Sun Sign and the Rising Sign before we get into further detail.
Your First House rules your Outward Personality. The sign residing on the First House is how the world views you. Any planetary placements in your first house will also intensify that outward personality.......
More on this subject will be blogged on a regular basis.
Brigid Bishop
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Friday, March 30, 2007 12:24 PM
A Soul Mate Story by Brigid Bishop
A Soul Mate Story by Brigid Bishop
I originally recorded this as a comment to my post on Soul Mates by Brigid Bishop, but felt it was important enough to drive home my point about Soul Mates as an independent post as well.
Please feel free to share your Soul Mate Story in the comments section below.
Here it is:
At the beginning of 8th grade I met a boy named Bobby. We decided we were going to be a "couple" and embarked happily on a puppy love excursion.
We rode bikes together, played basketball and tag football, wrestled and played literally like two puppies!
We were very happy throughout the 8th grade, where we both turned from 13 to the ripe old age of 14.
Bobby's parents were divorced. We lived in PA and his Dad lived in Maine, quite a distance away.
Every summer Bobby went to Maine to spend time with his Dad, we prepared for this imminent separation as best we could at our ages, and then a SHOCKER hit us.
Bobby's Mom told him that he (and not his older sister or younger brother) was going to remain permanently in Maine and not return for the beginning of the next school term when we started high school!!! It was my first broken heart and God, I can still feel the pain.
Back then, circa 1976, kids were not allowed access to their parents' long distance services, so there would be no phone calls, the only way for us to maintain any kind of communication was by snail mail.....so.........
All through the summer, and ninth grade, and the following summer, and tenth grade, we communicated via snail mail, professing our love for each other, etc. etc. etc.
Now, here is the bad part....during this time I was a blossoming teenage girl, 14, 15 and nearly 16.......and of course I told Bobby "I was waiting for him". What I didn't tell him was that while I was "waiting" I was dating many other boys and kind of began going steady at the age of fifteen with a nineteen year old. Bobby didn't know about the 19 year old and the 19 year old didn' know about Bobby.
I was a pretty good looking teenager and several boys my own age took offense at my choice. One, in particular, named Fran, who was supposed to by my friend, was ticked off because I chose the older boy instead of him.
Bobby came home during the summer of 1978 for a "surprise" visit. Fran knew. I didn't. Fran walked Bobby straight out to the beer barrell party I was at with the older boy (I was 16 by now) and said......"See, I told you she was cheating on you".
Caught like a rat in a trap, Bobby was crushed. He ran down the coal road in tears, and I chased him, but I couldn't catch him. He wouldn't take my calls, nothing. I would have dumped that older guy on the spot if I had known Bobby would ever come back.
Anyway, Bobby's Mom brought him back for eleventh grade, to my school. He was hurt and withdrawn and there was no way for me to get him to let me in again just yet. I tried, but he was too hurt.
In twelfth grade we briefly tried again, but I just wasn't ready to date a younger guy again for fear his mother would yank him away again. (I never dated a guy my own age again after Bobby got sent away, always over 18 so the parents couldn't interfere).
We graduated in 1980 and went our separate ways. I thought of him often over the years, of how things could have been if Mom hadn't sent him off to Bangor. I married, divorced, had relationships, some steady, some flings, then I met Frank in 1997.........a VERY complicated soul mate story, but anyway, one night in June of 2000.........
Yes, June of 2000, a Sunday night, I had a bad cold and was taking that daytime cold medicine that makes you feel like you are on speed, and I was aggressively cleaning my kitchen in my usual summer garb, a white T shirt and my Levi's jeans and a pair of white keds with a bandana around my head, and there is a knock on my door.........
I answer it and there is a tall man with blonde hair and a beard standing there.......
I immediately feel like I know him.........it takes a moment, and he says "Bridget"...........I screamed out "Bobby!!!!" and threw myself into his arms!!!
I was in shock, it was about 10:30 at night, I looked a mess, and here was my very first soul mate on my front porch after 24 years of being apart.
I was involved with Frank at the time, and I was very confused as to what this was going to do, I felt like it was a repeat of the summer of 1978!!!
We spent the next full week together, catching up, opening up, sharing what could-have-been's and what might-have-beens........revisiting our old playgrounds where Bobby said we should have raised our kids...........I never told Frank about any of this, at the time it was easy to steal the time.
Anyway, what was happening was Bobby was getting divorced. He told me that he had never stopped loving me, (same here), and that he had to come to Pennsylvania (He lived in Maine for all of his adult life) to see if I was "available". The kicker here is we both married partners 12 years our senior, he had 2 girls, I had 2 boys. My oldest son and his younger daughter were born on 5/29, 2 years apart, and his oldest daughter and my younger son were both born on 7/28, 2 years apart!!!!
We married ON THE SAME DAY OF THE SAME YEAR!!!!
Too many coincidences to place.
I told him about Frank.......he understood......we let go of each other that year as "this time around" we just weren't meant to be together.
We had a few phone calls, letters and cards for about 2 years after that, but the contact dropped again in 2002 as we got on with the business of living our "parallel lives", but we had our closure.......it just wasn't meant to be this time.
I firmly believe he is my soul mate, we just have to wait for another lifetime to manifest it to the fullest.
Important Note I forgot to mention: When Bobby came to see me in 2000 he shared with me that his mother had died and that on her DEATH bed he asked her why did she send him away like that??? She told him that she thought we were getting TOO CLOSE, and did it for our own good, as she saw how much in love we were and thought we were too young! Bobby told me he had a hard time forgiving her as both of our lives may have been entirely DIFFERENT had she not made this decision.
I originally recorded this as a comment to my post on Soul Mates by Brigid Bishop, but felt it was important enough to drive home my point about Soul Mates as an independent post as well.
Please feel free to share your Soul Mate Story in the comments section below.
Here it is:
At the beginning of 8th grade I met a boy named Bobby. We decided we were going to be a "couple" and embarked happily on a puppy love excursion.
We rode bikes together, played basketball and tag football, wrestled and played literally like two puppies!
We were very happy throughout the 8th grade, where we both turned from 13 to the ripe old age of 14.
Bobby's parents were divorced. We lived in PA and his Dad lived in Maine, quite a distance away.
Every summer Bobby went to Maine to spend time with his Dad, we prepared for this imminent separation as best we could at our ages, and then a SHOCKER hit us.
Bobby's Mom told him that he (and not his older sister or younger brother) was going to remain permanently in Maine and not return for the beginning of the next school term when we started high school!!! It was my first broken heart and God, I can still feel the pain.
Back then, circa 1976, kids were not allowed access to their parents' long distance services, so there would be no phone calls, the only way for us to maintain any kind of communication was by snail mail.....so.........
All through the summer, and ninth grade, and the following summer, and tenth grade, we communicated via snail mail, professing our love for each other, etc. etc. etc.
Now, here is the bad part....during this time I was a blossoming teenage girl, 14, 15 and nearly 16.......and of course I told Bobby "I was waiting for him". What I didn't tell him was that while I was "waiting" I was dating many other boys and kind of began going steady at the age of fifteen with a nineteen year old. Bobby didn't know about the 19 year old and the 19 year old didn' know about Bobby.
I was a pretty good looking teenager and several boys my own age took offense at my choice. One, in particular, named Fran, who was supposed to by my friend, was ticked off because I chose the older boy instead of him.
Bobby came home during the summer of 1978 for a "surprise" visit. Fran knew. I didn't. Fran walked Bobby straight out to the beer barrell party I was at with the older boy (I was 16 by now) and said......"See, I told you she was cheating on you".
Caught like a rat in a trap, Bobby was crushed. He ran down the coal road in tears, and I chased him, but I couldn't catch him. He wouldn't take my calls, nothing. I would have dumped that older guy on the spot if I had known Bobby would ever come back.
Anyway, Bobby's Mom brought him back for eleventh grade, to my school. He was hurt and withdrawn and there was no way for me to get him to let me in again just yet. I tried, but he was too hurt.
In twelfth grade we briefly tried again, but I just wasn't ready to date a younger guy again for fear his mother would yank him away again. (I never dated a guy my own age again after Bobby got sent away, always over 18 so the parents couldn't interfere).
We graduated in 1980 and went our separate ways. I thought of him often over the years, of how things could have been if Mom hadn't sent him off to Bangor. I married, divorced, had relationships, some steady, some flings, then I met Frank in 1997.........a VERY complicated soul mate story, but anyway, one night in June of 2000.........
Yes, June of 2000, a Sunday night, I had a bad cold and was taking that daytime cold medicine that makes you feel like you are on speed, and I was aggressively cleaning my kitchen in my usual summer garb, a white T shirt and my Levi's jeans and a pair of white keds with a bandana around my head, and there is a knock on my door.........
I answer it and there is a tall man with blonde hair and a beard standing there.......
I immediately feel like I know him.........it takes a moment, and he says "Bridget"...........I screamed out "Bobby!!!!" and threw myself into his arms!!!
I was in shock, it was about 10:30 at night, I looked a mess, and here was my very first soul mate on my front porch after 24 years of being apart.
I was involved with Frank at the time, and I was very confused as to what this was going to do, I felt like it was a repeat of the summer of 1978!!!
We spent the next full week together, catching up, opening up, sharing what could-have-been's and what might-have-beens........revisiting our old playgrounds where Bobby said we should have raised our kids...........I never told Frank about any of this, at the time it was easy to steal the time.
Anyway, what was happening was Bobby was getting divorced. He told me that he had never stopped loving me, (same here), and that he had to come to Pennsylvania (He lived in Maine for all of his adult life) to see if I was "available". The kicker here is we both married partners 12 years our senior, he had 2 girls, I had 2 boys. My oldest son and his younger daughter were born on 5/29, 2 years apart, and his oldest daughter and my younger son were both born on 7/28, 2 years apart!!!!
We married ON THE SAME DAY OF THE SAME YEAR!!!!
Too many coincidences to place.
I told him about Frank.......he understood......we let go of each other that year as "this time around" we just weren't meant to be together.
We had a few phone calls, letters and cards for about 2 years after that, but the contact dropped again in 2002 as we got on with the business of living our "parallel lives", but we had our closure.......it just wasn't meant to be this time.
I firmly believe he is my soul mate, we just have to wait for another lifetime to manifest it to the fullest.
Important Note I forgot to mention: When Bobby came to see me in 2000 he shared with me that his mother had died and that on her DEATH bed he asked her why did she send him away like that??? She told him that she thought we were getting TOO CLOSE, and did it for our own good, as she saw how much in love we were and thought we were too young! Bobby told me he had a hard time forgiving her as both of our lives may have been entirely DIFFERENT had she not made this decision.
Soul Mates by Brigid Bishop
Soul Mates by Brigid Bishop
Searching for your soul mate? Have a romanticized vision in your head of what it will be like? Living happily ever after and never having a harsh word pass between you? Is this what you have come to believe your soul mate is all about?
WRONG!
Soul mate relationships, although the most SIGNIFICANT relationships in our lives, are also the most DIFFICULT, or CHALLENGING, or CONTAIN THE MOST OBSTACLES!
People look at me like I am nuts when I say this as they have been led to believe by modern marketing practices that soul mate relationships are an instant connection with the fairy tale ending guaranteed, oh lord, do we need to talk about this!
First of all, there is a common misconception that people have that each soul here on earth has but one soul mate. That is not true. We have multiple soul mates. Each soul mate that we encounter is here with us because we have created a specific kind of karma with that soul. Dependent upon the karma created......we teach each others lessons relevant to that karma.
There are also different types of soul mates. Some soul mates are considered "twin flames". Twin flames are typically souls that are on a very similar karmic path and we encounter them during certain growth stages of our lives, we support them, they support us. They are typically friends, family members, or sometimes even casual acquaintances that we feel that instant chemistry with. They are not here so much to teach us a soul lesson as to support us while we learn it. They can manifest as children and parents, etc. etc.
There are also "twin souls". Twin souls tend to have extremely similar life paths to ours and we tend to cultivate these relationships quite easily, the twin soul is probably the type of soul mate that the average person imagines when they reference the term. The compatibility quotient is high, interests similar, experiences similar, etc., they typically are not the type of soul mate that passionate relationships arise out of.
Then we have the pure essence soul mates. These are the soul mates that have been romanticized in literature etc., however, the relationships with these soul mates are NEVER easy, smooth or effortless, they can be quite painful in fact, but if we work out the lessons karmically imprinted on our souls together, we achieve the reward of being able to be happy together.
The best example of a soul mate relationship portrayed in modern media that I can think of right now is the movie "What Dreams May Come". If you have never seen it, please rent it and pay close attention. Robin Williams plays the male lead and I can never remember the woman's name, but this is a soul mate relationship. In this story the man and woman meet and are very happy and productive, soul mates, but then, the soul lessons begin.
WARNING: THIS IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVIE, A "SPOILER" TO DEMONSTRATE A SOULMATE RELATIONSHIP, DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SPOIL THE MOVIE FOR YOURSELF!!
I warned you! This is the spoiler. Robin Williams and his wife are happily married with children and very successful and productive. Everything you could imagine a soul mate relationship being based on popular belief (fairy tale life), and then......one day......their nanny takes the children in the car and there is a terrible accident. Yes, the children die. It's horrid.
The wife falls apart and so does the husband, but the husband is capable of healing and begins to do so, the wife continues to fall apart as does the marriage, the wife even becomes suicidal, but their soul mate connection allows the husband to somehow pull her back into the living of life......just as they are about to celebrate reconciling their marriage and her recovery from attempted suicide, HE gets killed!!!!
It's so sad!!!! He dies and the story follows him to "heaven" where he encounters certain characters..........and he is allowed to see how his estranged wife is doing. Needless to say, she becomes depressed and suicidal and to his dismay he cannot stop her this time and she kills herself.
Well, they are soul mates, the most difficult relationships to work on, but the most connective. He finds that she goes to hell because of her suicide, and he is successful in rescuing her from the depths of hell...........it is an excellent movie about what it means to be a soul mate and what true love is.
The movie ends with a little boy and a little girl on a dock by a lake playing who meet for the first time, yes, it is Robin and his wife again, getting yet another chance to get things right, that is the nature of a soul mate relationship. You go through hell together and you keep getting the chance to do it over and over and over and over until you get it right.
Soul mates..........ah, the irony. I have mine and I must tell you I spent my time in hell and he did come and pull me back out. We went through nine years of working out our karma until we were allowed to be happy (I hope it lasts).
So when someone asks me "Is he my soul mate?" in a reading, the first thing I tell them is "You realize we have more than one soul mate, right?".
Careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
Read more about Soul Mates on Brigid Bishops Blog at Keen.com http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Gone-With-the-Wind--a-Classic-Soul-Mate-Story/127254.aspx
Searching for your soul mate? Have a romanticized vision in your head of what it will be like? Living happily ever after and never having a harsh word pass between you? Is this what you have come to believe your soul mate is all about?
WRONG!
Soul mate relationships, although the most SIGNIFICANT relationships in our lives, are also the most DIFFICULT, or CHALLENGING, or CONTAIN THE MOST OBSTACLES!
People look at me like I am nuts when I say this as they have been led to believe by modern marketing practices that soul mate relationships are an instant connection with the fairy tale ending guaranteed, oh lord, do we need to talk about this!
First of all, there is a common misconception that people have that each soul here on earth has but one soul mate. That is not true. We have multiple soul mates. Each soul mate that we encounter is here with us because we have created a specific kind of karma with that soul. Dependent upon the karma created......we teach each others lessons relevant to that karma.
There are also different types of soul mates. Some soul mates are considered "twin flames". Twin flames are typically souls that are on a very similar karmic path and we encounter them during certain growth stages of our lives, we support them, they support us. They are typically friends, family members, or sometimes even casual acquaintances that we feel that instant chemistry with. They are not here so much to teach us a soul lesson as to support us while we learn it. They can manifest as children and parents, etc. etc.
There are also "twin souls". Twin souls tend to have extremely similar life paths to ours and we tend to cultivate these relationships quite easily, the twin soul is probably the type of soul mate that the average person imagines when they reference the term. The compatibility quotient is high, interests similar, experiences similar, etc., they typically are not the type of soul mate that passionate relationships arise out of.
Then we have the pure essence soul mates. These are the soul mates that have been romanticized in literature etc., however, the relationships with these soul mates are NEVER easy, smooth or effortless, they can be quite painful in fact, but if we work out the lessons karmically imprinted on our souls together, we achieve the reward of being able to be happy together.
The best example of a soul mate relationship portrayed in modern media that I can think of right now is the movie "What Dreams May Come". If you have never seen it, please rent it and pay close attention. Robin Williams plays the male lead and I can never remember the woman's name, but this is a soul mate relationship. In this story the man and woman meet and are very happy and productive, soul mates, but then, the soul lessons begin.
WARNING: THIS IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOVIE, A "SPOILER" TO DEMONSTRATE A SOULMATE RELATIONSHIP, DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SPOIL THE MOVIE FOR YOURSELF!!
I warned you! This is the spoiler. Robin Williams and his wife are happily married with children and very successful and productive. Everything you could imagine a soul mate relationship being based on popular belief (fairy tale life), and then......one day......their nanny takes the children in the car and there is a terrible accident. Yes, the children die. It's horrid.
The wife falls apart and so does the husband, but the husband is capable of healing and begins to do so, the wife continues to fall apart as does the marriage, the wife even becomes suicidal, but their soul mate connection allows the husband to somehow pull her back into the living of life......just as they are about to celebrate reconciling their marriage and her recovery from attempted suicide, HE gets killed!!!!
It's so sad!!!! He dies and the story follows him to "heaven" where he encounters certain characters..........and he is allowed to see how his estranged wife is doing. Needless to say, she becomes depressed and suicidal and to his dismay he cannot stop her this time and she kills herself.
Well, they are soul mates, the most difficult relationships to work on, but the most connective. He finds that she goes to hell because of her suicide, and he is successful in rescuing her from the depths of hell...........it is an excellent movie about what it means to be a soul mate and what true love is.
The movie ends with a little boy and a little girl on a dock by a lake playing who meet for the first time, yes, it is Robin and his wife again, getting yet another chance to get things right, that is the nature of a soul mate relationship. You go through hell together and you keep getting the chance to do it over and over and over and over until you get it right.
Soul mates..........ah, the irony. I have mine and I must tell you I spent my time in hell and he did come and pull me back out. We went through nine years of working out our karma until we were allowed to be happy (I hope it lasts).
So when someone asks me "Is he my soul mate?" in a reading, the first thing I tell them is "You realize we have more than one soul mate, right?".
Careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
Read more about Soul Mates on Brigid Bishops Blog at Keen.com http://www.keen.com/CommunityServer/UserBlogPosts/Brigid_Bishop/Gone-With-the-Wind--a-Classic-Soul-Mate-Story/127254.aspx
The Dating Game By Brigid Bishop
The Dating Game By Brigid Bishop
I get this over and over and over again in my professional practice. Women, who are otherwise intelligent and logical beings become irrational and unrealistic and anxiety ridden when the object of their affections becomes ambivalent, or worse, uninterested.
I am not talking about those in "long term" relationships. I am talking about those who are truly single and dating who don't want to give a relationship time to grow or develop naturally, or don't allow the male to take the "reigns" so to speak, of the masculine energy role (the initiator) and jump the gun in oh so many ways.
The advice that I give over and over and over again, which VERY few follow, is to remove their energy and attention AWAY from the gentleman who is behaving in a distant manner. This means, don't call him up, don't text him, don't stalk him online, don't invite him out..........the female (at the dating stage) must allow the male the time and the "room" to decide whether or not he wants to take this further, which is not on the same schedule as the female.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
I get this over and over and over again in my professional practice. Women, who are otherwise intelligent and logical beings become irrational and unrealistic and anxiety ridden when the object of their affections becomes ambivalent, or worse, uninterested.
I am not talking about those in "long term" relationships. I am talking about those who are truly single and dating who don't want to give a relationship time to grow or develop naturally, or don't allow the male to take the "reigns" so to speak, of the masculine energy role (the initiator) and jump the gun in oh so many ways.
The advice that I give over and over and over again, which VERY few follow, is to remove their energy and attention AWAY from the gentleman who is behaving in a distant manner. This means, don't call him up, don't text him, don't stalk him online, don't invite him out..........the female (at the dating stage) must allow the male the time and the "room" to decide whether or not he wants to take this further, which is not on the same schedule as the female.
In order to prevent copyright infringement, this blog has been condensed to an excerpt as it currently appears in Brigid's book "The Dating Game, Insights Into Affairs of The Heart" releasing in April 2010 and available at Amazon and fine book sellers everywhere. Ask for it by name!
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